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Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, religious thinker, and writer (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662). Author of the Pensées (posthumous; compositional fragments 1657–62), the Provincial Letters (1656–57), De l'esprit géométrique (c. 1657), works…
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Christian Semantics of Chair (Flesh)
Preliminary stub (weave Pass 2, 2026-06-03) homing a HUB motif previously distributed across hand-of-god, haptocentrism, mondialisation-of-flesh, and flesh-as-element §"Positions" without a dedicated corpus-level page. The second of Derrid…
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Emmanuel Mounier
French Catholic philosopher (1905–1950), founder and editor of the journal Esprit (1932– ), and central figure of the mid-twentieth-century personalist movement. Author of Manifeste au service du personnalisme (Aubier, 1936), Traité du car…
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Jacques Maritain
French Catholic philosopher (1882–1973), associated with the Thomist revival and the Catholic-personalist movement. Author of Humanisme intégral (1936) / True Humanism — the cardinal Catholic-personalist political-philosophical statement o…
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Jean-Louis Chrétien
French Catholic phenomenologist and poet (1952–2019). Major figure of what Dominique Janicaud (in The Theological Turn of French Phenomenology, 1991) named the "theological turn" of French phenomenology — alongside Levinas, Michel Henry, J…
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John of the Cross
Spanish Carmelite friar, mystical theologian, and poet (1542–1591). Canonized 1726; named Doctor of the Church 1926. Co-reformer of the Carmelite order with Teresa of Ávila. Major works: The Ascent of Mount Carmel (Subida del Monte Carmelo…
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Maurice Nédoncelle
French Catholic philosopher (1905–1976), close to the Mounier / Esprit circle and a major contributor to the personalist literature. Author of La Réciprocité des consciences (Aubier, 1942), La Personne humaine et la nature (PUF), and many…
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Nicolas Berdyaev
Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher (1874–1948), exiled to France (1922) after expulsion from the Soviet Union; one of the central figures of the early-20th-century existentialist-personalist line. Author of The Meaning of the Creative…
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On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy
Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2005 (orig. Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy, Galilée 2000; v1 essay "Le toucher: Touch/To Touch Him" in Paragraph 16:2, 1993, trans. Peggy Kamuf) · Type: book
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Personalism
Author: Emmanuel Mounier · Year: 1950 (French; English trans. Mairet 1952) · Type: book
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Personalism
Mounier's synthesizing term for the mid-twentieth-century philosophical-political movement that affirms the person (la personne) — neither a thing nor a definition but "the one reality that we know, and that we are at the same time fashion…
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Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher and theologian (1813–1855), the père fondateur of modern existentialism, who articulated the "irreducibility of the source and spring of liberty" against the impersonal architectonic of Hegel's System. Author of Either/O…
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The Hand of God
The theologized organ that, on Derrida's reading in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (esp. §§7, 11), haunts the haptocentric tradition of touch. The figure runs from the biblical hand of God (Genesis, Exodus, the Psalms) through Aquinas's mutuus…